IS IT REALLY FREE HOSTING?

HOW ABOUT THAT OFFER OF FREE WEBSITE HOSTING?

You get what your pay for, and if you are serious about your business, you will pay the small price for your own space on a server. The limitations placed on “free hosting” will soon make it necessary to get paid hosting anyway, and the extra trouble involved in changing your hosting will make sure you don't do it again. ( Been there, done that, too! )

I can advise you on good local hosting, which has the advantage that the owners respond immediately to help with any problems. Trouble with Australian hosting is that it is apparently invariably hugely more expensive than U.S. hosting, and now I have found that my favourite Australian host is just a re-seller of U.S. hosting, I am in the gradual process of changing over to the U.S., not because of price alone, but because it is invariably a far better deal all round. I hate to have to write this, but I have done a great deal of research and come to the above conclusions.
Nothing wrong with letting me know if I have missed something here.

Otherwise, I can give general advice on how to avoid paying too much for domain name registration and hosting. There are very wide variations in these costs, and the service varies widely, too.
Some of the cheap hosting will turn out to be unsuitable because of lack of features in the control panel. A novice can easily make mistakes which, while not necessarily costing much money, can cause considerable frustration in the long run. Some overseas hosting may be risky simply because of communication difficulties.